A daughter is born to Karen and Thaddeus Ross.
Betty Ross's Life
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1975 CE
1 /7
Betty Ross is born
Life, Birth -
1989 CE
5
Death of Karen Ross
Life, DeathKaren Ross dies of breast cancer.
Location
Fairfield -
1989 CE
81992 CE
/6
Betty Ross attends boarding school
Life, EducationShortly after the death of Karen Ross, Thunderbolt Ross enrolled his grieving daughter Betty Ross in boarding school, creating a rift between them that never healed.
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1992 CE
92003 CE
/6
Betty Ross enrolls in Harvard
Life, EducationBetty Ross is accepted into Harvard University for her undergraduate studies.
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1995 CE
5 /5
Bruce Banner & Betty Ross begin dating
Life, Relationship changeDuring the third year of college, Betty Ross meets grad student Bruce Banner, and they begin a relationship.
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1996 CE
6
Betty Ross recieves her Bachelors Degree
Life, Achievement/ WinBetty Ross graduates with an undergraduate degree in Biology. She chooses to remain at Harvard University for post-graduate studies.
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1997 CE
6
Betty Ross recieves her Masters
Life, Achievement/ WinBetty Ross recieves a Masters degree in celullar biology.
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2002 CE
7
Bruce Banner recieves his Doctorate
Life, Achievement/ WinBruce Banner completes his doctoral studies, recieving a PhD in Physics.
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2002 CE
82003 CE
/7
Betty Ross works at Stanley's
Life, CareerBetty Ross begins working as a waitress at Stanley's Pizzeria while completing her studies, and she and Bruce Banner become friends with the owner, Stanley Lieber.
Location
Stanley's Pizzeria -
2002 CE
8
Betty Ross & Bruce Banner move to Willowdale
Life, Relocation
Location
Willowdale -
2002 CE
82004 CE
/6
Betty Ross enrolls in Culver University
Life, EducationBetty Ross enrolls in Culver University for her doctoral studies.
Location
Willowdale -
2002 CE
92002 CE
/11
Bruce Banner employed at Culver University
Life, CareerBruce Banner takes a job as a lecturer in Physics at Culver University. He is fired in absentia shortly afterwards, when he goes missing and fails to show up to work for a month without warning.
Location
Willowdale -
2002 CE
24 /102002 CE
24 /12
Bruce Banner is missing for 2 months
Life, Trauma/ LossFollowing his father's death, Bruce Banner vanishes for 2 months. He has no memory of this time, suggesting either Savage Hulk or Devil Hulk was fronting.
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2002 CE
27 /10
Betty Ross reports Bruce Banner missing
MiscellaneousAfter he has been missing for three days, Betty Ross reports Bruce Banner's disappearance to the police.
Location
Willowdale -
2002 CE
24 /12
Bruce Banner returns to Willowdale
Life, RelocationBruce Banner wakes up in the alley behind Stanley's Pizzeria on Christmas eve, with no memory of the previous 2 months. He is found by Stanley Lieber, who calls Betty Ross and takes him to hospital.
Location
Stanley's Pizzeria -
2003 CE
12004 CE
9 /4
Bruce Banner remployed at Culver University
Life, CareerBruce Banner is re-employed by Culver University, although he is hired as a researcher, rather than lecturer, due to his previous disappearance.
Location
Willowdale -
2003 CE
1
Bruce Banner refuses therapy
Life, Trauma/ LossAfter his disappearance and amnesia, Bruce Banner recieves brain scans, but these show no evidence of head trauma. The doctor suggests it may have been a fugue and recommends therapy, but Bruce refuses, even after he and Betty Ross argue about it.
Location
West Virginia -
2003 CE
72004 CE
/4
Betty Ross employed at Culver University
Life, CareerBetty Ross begins working as a researcher at Culver University during her post-graduate studies as a teaching assistant.
Location
Willowdale -
2004 CE
15 /4
Betty Ross is recruited to the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project
Life, CareerThaddeus Ross recruits Betty Ross to the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project, although the didn't begin actively working on the project until June.
Location
Willowdale -
2004 CE
19 /4
Bruce Banner Joins the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project
Life, CareerBetty Ross recommends Bruce Banner for a position in the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project, which was being overseen by her father, and carried out under the auspices of Culver University.
Location
Willowdale -
2004 CE
6
Betty Ross recieves her PhD
Life, Achievement/ WinBetty Ross completes her doctoral studies, graduating from Culver University with a PhD in culullar biology.
Location
Willowdale -
2005 CE
1
The Banner-Ross Serum is developed
Discovery, ScientificThe Banner-Ross Serum, a variant of the Super-Soldier Serum, is completed and begins primate trials in order to detirmine its safety for human trials.
Location
Willowdale -
2005 CE
13 /4 14:00
Banner-Ross Serum is refused human trials
Life, CareerThe Culver University ethics board refuse to allow the Banner-Ross Serum to progress to human trials, believing more extensive animal testing is needed before it can ethically be given to humans.
Location
Willowdale -
2005 CE
14 /4
Bruce Banner decides to test the Serum on himself
Life, Failure / MishapSeeing no other way to prove the Banner-Ross Serum is safe for human trials, and not wanting to upset Thaddeus Ross, Bruce Banner decides to test the serum on himself, and persuades Betty Ross to assist him in the trials, despite her reservations.
Location
Willowdale -
2005 CE
16 /4 15:002005 CE
16 /4 17:00
Banner-Ross Serum Human Trial
Discovery, ScientificBefore an audience of researchers and military personell, Betty Ross administers the Banner-Ross Serum to Bruce Banner, in preparation for his exposure to radiation.
After feeling no effects from the initial radiation dosage, Bruce increased the strength to potentially lethal levels, in order to prove to the watching General Ross that the serum works. However, the combination of the serum and radiation caused him to mutate.
Location
Willowdale -
2005 CE
16 /4 17:002005 CE
16 /4 18:00
Disaster at the BTFEP lab
Military: SkirmishThe newly mutated Hulk, terrified and disorientated, tries to escape the radiation laboratory, accidentally injuring Betty Ross and several of the researchers in the process. When General Ross orders the staff to prevent him from leaving, Hulk attacks the people standing in his way, breaking Ross's arm and killing three people, two scientists and a soldier.
One of the machines he had damaged explodes, starting a fire, and Hulk is able to escape in the confusion.
Location
Willowdale -
2005 CE
16 /4 17:00
Bruce Banner becomes a Gamma Mutate
Life, IdentityWhile trying to prove the efficacy of the Banner-Ross Serum, Bruce Banner becomes the world's first Gamma Mutate.
Location
WillowdaleAdditional timelines
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2005 CE
16 /4 18:00
Bruce Banner goes missing
Criminal ActivityFollowing an accident at the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project, Hulk vanishes.
Location
Willowdale -
2005 CE
17 /4
Bruce is declared a terrorist
Life, CrimeIn order to capture and detain Bruce Banner (since he considered the Super-Soldier Serum in his blood to be property of the U.S. Army), General Ross declares the explosion at the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project lab to have been an act of deliberate sabotage by Banner, making him a wanted domestic terrorist.
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2005 CE
17 /4
BTFEP lab disaster cover-up
Political eventThe Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project make a statement claiming there has been a chemical leak from their laboratory that might cause temporary hallucinations in order to explain away sightings of Hulk on the previous day.
Location
Willowdale -
2005 CE
18 /4
Betty Ross quits to BTFEP
Life, CareerAfter Bruce Banner is declared a terrorist, Betty Ross quits the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project, and cuts all ties with her father.
Location
Willowdale -
2005 CE
52005 CE
/8
Betty Ross works as a TA
Life, CareerAfter quitting the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project, Betty Ross works part-time as a teaching assistant at Culver University for the remainder of the 04/05 academic year.
Location
Willowdale -
2005 CE
82009 CE
/8
Betty Ross becomes an assistant professor
Life, CareerBetty Ross is employed by Culver University as an assistant professor of celullar biology.
Location
Willowdale -
2006 CE
7 /2
Bruce Banner emails Betty Ross
MiscellaneousBruce Banner manages to email Betty Ross without the military intercepting the message. He tells her that he is okay, but will not be returning to Willowdale until he is no a wanted man, and he's certain that Hulk isn't a danger to her. He signs the email 'Mr Green'.
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2006 CE
11
'Myostatins and Glial Celullar Mutation Stabilisation' rejected
Life, Failure / MishapThe Journal of Cell Biology pull a paper written by Betty Ross, 'Myostatins and Glial Celullar Mutation Stabilisation', before publication, after they are contacted by the U.S. Army, due to the paper being partially based on research Ross did while part of the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project.
When Betty attempts to appeal the decision, she is contacted by Thunderbolt Ross, who threatened to prosecute her under the Espionage Act if she did not withdraw her appeal.
Location
Willowdale -
2008 CE
16 /4
Betty Ross begins dating again
Life, Relationship changeThree years after Bruce Banner's disappearance, Betty Ross decides to stop waiting for him, and consider a new relationship.
Location
Willowdale -
2009 CE
4 /42010 CE
5 /6
Betty Ross & Leonard Samson begin dating
Life, Relationship changeA colleague at Culver University sets Betty Ross up on a date with Leonard Samson. They hit it off, and begin dating.
Location
Willowdale -
2009 CE
82010 CE
3 /6
Betty Ross becomes an tenured professor
Life, CareerBetty Ross recieves tenure, becoming a full professor at Culver University, teaching celullar biology.
Location
Willowdale -
2010 CE
2 /6 9:002010 CE
2 /6 11:00
Battle of Culver University
Military actionRecieving word that Bruce Banner was in Willowdale, The Hulkbusters launched a full-scale attack on Culver University campus.
Location
WillowdaleAdditional timelines
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2010 CE
2 /6 10:00
Hulk injures Emil Blonsky
Military: Skirmish
However, Hulk easily defeats him, throwing him into a tree and breaking many of his bones, including his spine.
Location
WillowdaleAdditional timelines
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2010 CE
2 /6 11:00
Betty Ross is shot
Life, Trauma/ LossWhile trying to defend Hulk, Betty Ross is shot by the Hulkbusters, causing Hulk to take her and flee in an attempt to protect her.
Location
Willowdale -
2010 CE
2 /6 12:002010 CE
2 /6 18:00
Hulk hides out in Monongahela National Forest
MiscellaneousAfter Betty Ross is injured during the Battle of Culver University, Hulk flees from Willowdale, hiding out in a cave in Monongahela National Forest.
Location
Monongahela National Forest -
2010 CE
2 /6 18:00
Bruce Banner gives Betty Ross a Transfusion
Life, Failure / MishapIn order to prevent her from dying of hypovolemic shock, Bruce Banner gives Betty Ross a blood transfusion, hoping that the radiation sickness will progress slowly enough that he will be able to get her medical help before it kills her.
Location
Monongahela National Forest -
2010 CE
2 /6 19:00
Bruce Banner calls James Rhodes for help
MiscellaneousAfter the Hulk fled The Hulkbusters, Bruce Banner found himself in the middle of nowhere with a severely injured Betty Ross, and called James Rhodes for assistance.
Location
Monongahela National Forest -
2010 CE
2 /6 20:002010 CE
2 /6 21:00
James Rhodes rescues Bruce Banner & Betty Ross
MiscellaneousJames Rhodes scrambles a Stark Industries helicopter, and rescues Bruce Banner and a severely injured Betty Ross from Monongahela National Forest.
Rhodey wants to take them to hospital, but Bruce believes the only person who can help Betty is Samuel Sterns, who has been studying cures for Gamma Mutation.
Location
Monongahela National Forest -
2010 CE
2 /6 21:00
Betty Ross becomes a Gamma Mutate
Life, IdentityIn order to save her life, Samuel Sterns gives Betty Ross a dose of the Banner-Ross Serum, causing her to become a Gamma Mutate.
Location
Samuel Sterns's Lab -
2010 CE
2 /6 22:002010 CE
2 /6 24:00
Bruce Banner and James Rhodes are taken into custody
Criminal Activity
Location
Samuel Sterns's Lab -
2010 CE
2 /6 22:00
Betty Ross becomes Harpy
Discovery, ScientificAfter Betty Ross becomes a Gamma Mutate, Bruce Banner has Samuel Sterns give her the first dose of his gamma cure.
However, the cure fails, and instead causes her to mutate into the Harpy. She then flees Sterns's lab, flying away, just as the Hulkbusters arrive to take Bruce into custody.
Location
Samuel Sterns's Lab -
2010 CE
2 /6 24:002010 CE
3 /6 02:00
Battle of Harlem
Military actionAfter becoming the Abomination, Emil Blonsky goes on a rampage through Harlem.After The Hulkbusters failed to stop him, James Rhodes forced Thunderbolt Ross to allow the Hulk to fight him.Hulk eventually won the battle with the help of Harpy.
Location
HarlemAdditional timelines
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2010 CE
3 /6 01:00
Betty Ross joins the Battle of Harlem
Military: SkirmishJust as it seems the Hulk is loosing the fight with the Abomination, the Harpy appears to join the fight, helping Hulk to decapitate Blonsky.
Location
Harlem -
2010 CE
3 /6 02:00
Bruce & Betty taken into SHIELD Custody
Civil actionIn order to prevent Thunderbolt Ross taking Bruce Banner, Tony Stark persuades Clint Barton to take Banner and Betty Ross into custody on behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D..
Betty escapes, and Bruce is released shortly afterwards on the orders of Nick Fury.
Location
Harlem -
2010 CE
3 /6 02:00
Death of Emil Blonsky
Life, Death
Location
Harlem -
2010 CE
3 /6 03:00
Betty Ross escapes SHIELD custody
Life, CrimeBetty Ross transforms into the Harpy and flies away from the hellicopter being used to take her and Bruce Banner into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.
Location
New York City -
2010 CE
4 /62014 CE
27 /7
Betty Ross goes on the run
Life, Crime -
2010 CE
5 /6
Betty Ross moves to Nome
Life, RelocationFleeing the Hulkbusters and Thunderbolt Ross, Betty Ross abandons her life in Willowdale and moves to Alaska.
Location
Nome -
2010 CE
5 /6
Betty Ross ends her relationship with Leonard Samson
Life, Relationship change -
2011 CE
23 /6
Thaddeus Ross has a heart bypass
MiscellaneousThunderbolt Ross has a heart attack, requiring emergency tripple bypass surgery to save his life.Location
Washington DC -
2014 CE
3 /7
Bruce Banner & Clint Barton track down Betty Ross
Life, RelocationUsing a Portable Gamma Detector, Bruce Banner and Clint Barton track Betty Ross to Nome. After a fight, in which Barton is injured, she agrees to return to Los Angeles with them to assist Banner in curing Samuel Sterns.
Location
Nome -
2014 CE
4 /7
Helen Cho arrives in LA
Life, RelocationTony Stark pays for Helen Cho to travel to Los Angeles so her Regeneration Cradle can be used to slow Samuel Sterns's illness, giving Betty Ross and Bruce Banner more time to cure him.
Location
Los AngelesAdditional timelines
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2014 CE
4 /72014 CE
25 /7
Bruce Banner & Betty Ross work on a cure
Scientific achievementBetty Ross & Bruce Banner work on curing Samuel Sterns.
Location
The Alliance HQ -
2014 CE
25 /7
Samuel Sterns becomes a Gamma Mutate
Life, IdentityBetty Ross and Bruce Banner succeed in saving Samuel Sterns's life by mutating him into a Gamma Mutate using the Banner-Ross Serum.
Location
The Alliance HQ -
2014 CE
26 /7 9:00
Airport attack
Disaster / DestructionA gamma bomb created by Samuel Sterns, containing an aerosolised version of the Banner-Ross Serum is set off in Los Angeles International Airport, resulting in everyone in the terminal being mutated into Gamma Mutates.
Location
Los Angeles International Airport -
2014 CE
26 /7 10:002014 CE
26 /7 15:00
The Los Angeles Incident
Disaster / DestructionGamma bombs and aerosolized Banner-Ross Serum placed around Los Angeles by Samuel Sterns and The Alliance detonate, turning much of the population of central LA into Gamma Mutates.
The day was saved by Bruce Banner and Betty Ross, who, with the help of Clint Barton, Helen Cho, and much of the Alliance, who regretted their earlier actions, were able to manufacture and distribute a cure.
Location
Los Angeles -
2014 CE
27 /7
Betty Ross goes back to Willowdale
Life, Relocation
Location
Willowdale -
2014 CE
10
Betty Ross re-employed at Culver University
Life, Career -
2016 CE
Betty Ross & Leonard Samson get back together
Life, Relationship change -
2017 CE
Betty Ross appointed Professor of Celullar Biology
Life, Career -
2017 CE
10
Betty Ross presents a TEDtalk on mutation
Cultural event -
2018 CE
8
'Am I Human? An Examiniation of a Mutated Subject' published
Scientific achievementBetty Ross publishes her seminal study on her own Gamma Mutation, the first scientific paper of its kind.
Species
Human Mutates